Of course, making the WeakHashtable thread-safe is not desirable.

I was afraid of the performance implications, but after testing, a
lock seems to be fine.
Case closed :)

On Feb 3, 12:54 pm, Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is a hack.
> The issue is still there, but just harder to hit.
> We have to either make WeakHashtable thread safe (probably very hard) or
> lock around setting/getting from it
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Pierre Henri Kuate <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > After further investigation, I think that here is how the issue
> > occurs:
>
> > There is only one Worker per SessionFactory so multiple calls to
> > TransactionalWorker.PerformWork() can be running on different threads
> > at the same time.
> > The only line that changes the WeakHashtable is:
> > synchronizationPerTransaction[transaction] = txSync;
>
> > Looking at its implementation, we can see that it scavenges first then
> > set the value. So if a scavenge is running on one thread while a set
> > is being performed on another, we get that exception.
>
> > To test this theory, I modified the code like this:
> > synchronizationPerTransaction.SetWithoutScavenging(transaction,
> > txSync); // Which just set the value in the innerHashtable
> > And that exception hasn't occur after multiple tests.
>
> > What do you think about this solution? Hack or Fix? :)
>
> > Note that this require adding a method to
> > NHibernate.Util.WeakHashtable and I wonder if it doesn't reveal a
> > larger problem...
>
> > On Feb 3, 10:21 am, Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > looks like an obivious multi threading issue. I'll look into it a bit.
>
> > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Pierre Henri Kuate <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
>
> > > > Hi all,
>
> > > > I have access to a 8-core workstation and I use it to stress test my
> > > > project.
> > > > I noticed that the concurrency tests in NHibernate.Search sometimes
> > > > fail with the following exception:
>
> > > > System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration
> > > > operation may not execute.
> > > >   at System.Collections.Hashtable.HashtableEnumerator.MoveNext()
> > > >   at NHibernate.Util.WeakHashtable.Scavenge() in C:\Dev\NHibernate
> > > > \NHibernate\Util\WeakHashtable.cs:line 150
> > > >   at NHibernate.Util.WeakHashtable.set_Item(Object key, Object value)
> > > > in C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate\Util\WeakHashtable.cs:line 198
> > > >   at NHibernate.Search.Backend.Impl.TransactionalWorker.PerformWork
> > > > (Work work, ISessionImplementor session) in C:\Dev\NHibernate
> > > > \NHibernate.Search\Backend\Impl\TransactionalWorker.cs:line 28
> > > >   at NHibernate.Search.Event.FullTextIndexEventListener.ProcessWork
> > > > (Object entity, Object id, WorkType workType, AbstractEvent e) in C:
> > > > \Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate.Search\Event
> > > > \FullTextIndexEventListener.cs:line 54
> > > >   at NHibernate.Search.Event.FullTextIndexEventListener.OnPostUpdate
> > > > (PostUpdateEvent e) in C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate.Search\Event
> > > > \FullTextIndexEventListener.cs:line 94
> > > >   at NHibernate.Action.EntityUpdateAction.PostUpdate() in C:\Dev
> > > > \NHibernate\NHibernate\Action\EntityUpdateAction.cs:line 172
> > > >   at NHibernate.Action.EntityUpdateAction.Execute() in C:\Dev
> > > > \NHibernate\NHibernate\Action\EntityUpdateAction.cs:line 128
> > > >   at NHibernate.Engine.ActionQueue.Execute(IExecutable executable) in
> > > > C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate\Engine\ActionQueue.cs:line 130
> > > >   at NHibernate.Engine.ActionQueue.ExecuteActions(IList list) in C:
> > > > \Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate\Engine\ActionQueue.cs:line 113
> > > >   at NHibernate.Engine.ActionQueue.ExecuteActions() in C:\Dev
> > > > \NHibernate\NHibernate\Engine\ActionQueue.cs:line 147
> > > >   at
>
> > NHibernate.Event.Default.AbstractFlushingEventListener.PerformExecutions
> > > > (IEventSource session) in C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate\Event\Default
> > > > \AbstractFlushingEventListener.cs:line 241
> > > >   at NHibernate.Event.Default.DefaultFlushEventListener.OnFlush
> > > > (FlushEvent event) in C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate\Event\Default
> > > > \DefaultFlushEventListener.cs:line 19
> > > >   at NHibernate.Impl.SessionImpl.Flush() in C:\Dev\NHibernate
> > > > \NHibernate\Impl\SessionImpl.cs:line 1215
> > > >   at NHibernate.Transaction.AdoTransaction.Commit() in C:\Dev
> > > > \NHibernate\NHibernate\Transaction\AdoTransaction.cs:line 177
> > > >   at NHibernate.Search.Tests.Worker.WorkerTestCase.ReverseWork(Object
> > > > state) in C:\Dev\NHibernate\NHibernate.Search.Tests\Worker
> > > > \WorkerTestCase.cs:line 216
>
> > > > Note that it also occurs on my Core 2 Duo, but far less often.
>
> > > > Have you ever experienced this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
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